About Anthony Radice

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) GCSEs are fiddly. There’s no way around it. They contain multiple question types which demand slightly different things of pupils, and they are marked according to rigid criteria, often by…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: Boy Reading (1843) by Albert Tikos (1815-1845) I’m currently working with primary teachers across the Inspiration Trust to develop a content-focused approach to literature. I spoke to the whole primary staff about this project back…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: 2017 was a rather quieter year on the blog. I moved to work for the Inspiration Trust in September, and much of my writing energies have been focused on producing resources for Inspiration teachers…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: Can you prepare for an ‘unseen’ reading test – a test in which you will have to read something you’ve never encountered before, and answer questions on it? To answer this question, we need…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: When studies are made of how much difference schools make, they focus on finding out the main factors which contribute to the variation in academic success, and discover that schools are a relatively small…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave to all Inspiration Trust primary staff on 20th October 2017. This morning, I want to examine what we mean by literature as a…

Originally posted on The Traditional Teacher: Michael Fordham has already written eloquently about how English, as a whole, is a Frankenstein subject, a monster composed of a myriad of vastly different parts artificially stitched together. Within that jumble of odd…